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Archive | January, 2014

Laravel 4 comes with a password reminder and registration interface. The interface sends out reminder emails with unique tokens, so that the application can confirm the user trying to recover their password does have access to the email address they claim is theirs. Using the interface is easy. To recover a password, an anonymous user […]

Note: This article was written for Laravel 4.x and now very outdated. Please see the comments below for recommendations on other resources you can use for later versions of Laravel. When handling uploaded files in the controller, there is a point where the file needs to be moved to its final destination. Unusually for Laravel, […]

Working on a portal that allows end users to enter their flight details for Operation Wallacea (OPWALL) trips, we were finding many details not being entered correctly. Since the portal was to take some of the load off the operations staff, having to double-check everything was not really saving any tine. The flight codes (or […]

A local community-run cinema was set up last year (2013) in my town. They have a website and their ticketing is handled by Ticket Source. I found the listings on the website hard to navigate and not organised or categorised in any way. So what to do? Mash it up, of course. Taking a feed […]

Finding your WooCommerce variations are being lost when you edit a product? You need to read this to find out why and what to do about it. max_input_vars is a setting used by PHP. Its purpose is to limit the number of fields that can be sent to a website when a form is submitted. […]